Dover Quartet Makes Carnegie Hall Mainstage Debut This Sunday, January 21, with Free, Live Webcast at medici.tv
This Sunday, January 21, the Dover Quartet – “one of the world’s finest young string quartets” (New Yorker) – joins Janine Jansen and Jean-Yves Thibaudet at New York’s Carnegie Hall for Chausson’s haunting yet rarely programmed Concerto in D for violin, piano, and string quartet. Marking the Cleveland Quartet Award- and 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning group’s Stern Auditorium debut, the concert will be filmed and streamed live, free of charge, to audiences around the world at medici.tv, after which the webcast will be available for 90 days for free, on-demand viewing.
Their first appearance on Carnegie’s main stage follows the Dovers’ auspicious debuts at the venue’s Weill Recital Hall last season and at Washington DC’s Library of Congress just last month. Performing on four Stradivari instruments from the library’s own collection, they played Viktor Ullmann’s third quartet, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, alongside works by his teachers Schoenberg and Zemlinsky. As the Washington Classical Review observed, “This program demonstrated the growing mastery of the Dover Quartet over all corners of the string quartet repertory.” The Washington Post explained:
“The quartet, intelligent and distinctive players all, brought poetry on the unfamiliar instruments. Whether one can truly hear the difference in a blind test, the Strads shared a common timbre Monday: a warm rich sound with a hint of otherworldliness, an almost inhuman, nearly electronic quality, like a very old wine, or a voice raised, for a moment, from the grave, in a program that not only repeated the past but illuminated it.”
Ullmann’s quartet may also be heard on Voices of Defiance 1943 1944 1945, the Dovers’ second recording on the Cedille label. Taking listeners on a powerful, often harrowing, journey through three searing works written during World War II, on its release last fall the album broke the top ten on Billboard’s traditional classical chart and was recognized as “undoubtedly one of the most compelling discs released this year” (Wall Street Journal).
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About the Dover Quartet
Having enjoyed a “rise to the top [that] looks practically meteoric” (Strings), the Dover Quartet is fast becoming a major presence on the international scene. Upcoming highlights include its return to Washington’s Kennedy Center for new music by Missy Mazzoli, Ted Hearne, and Derek Bermel in the trailblazing KC Jukebox series. In the third year of a specially created, multi-season faculty residency at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, the quartet gives multiple performances throughout the season, including an appearance in the conservatory’s Winter Chamber Music Festival. The Dovers also complete work on a feature-length documentary by filmmaker Bruce Broder, and can be seen championing less traditional fare in their YouTube videos of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and the music from Twin Peaks, reaching hundreds of thousands of new fans to date. As the Chicago Tribune put it, “The Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet – they’re that good.”
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Dover Quartet: upcoming engagements
Jan 21 at 2pm
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium (debut)
Chausson: Concerto in D for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21 (with Janine Jansen, violin; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano)
Jan 24–26: Residency
Evanston, IL
Northwestern University
Bienen School of Music:
Jan 26: Winter Chamber Music Festival, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2
Schoenberg: String Quartet in D
Jan 27
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Chamber Music Hamilton, Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Pavilion
Viktor Ullmann: Quartet No. 3
Schumann: Quartet in F, Op. 41, No. 2
Zemlinsky: Quartet No. 2
Feb 1
Beaver Creek, CO
Vilar Performing Arts Center
Mozart: Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Haydn: Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D
Feb 3
Beverly Hills, MI
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Mozart: Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Duke Ellington: Arrangements for clarinet and string quartet by David Schiff (with David Shifrin, clarinet)
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 (with David Shifrin, clarinet)
Feb 9
Ames, IA
Ames Town & Gown
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Feb 11
Wooster, OH
Wooster Chamber Music Series
Haydn: Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Feb 13
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Chamber Music Society
Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Schoenberg: String Quartet in D
Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2
Feb 21–23: Residency
Evanston, IL
Northwestern University
Bienen School of Music
Feb 24
Saratoga Springs, NY
Skidmore College
Haydn: Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Bartok: Quartet No. 1
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
Feb 25
Utica, NY
Chamber Music Society of Utica
Mozart: Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Schoenberg: Quartet in D
Zemlinsky: Quartet No. 2
March 1
Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Chamber Music Society
Winter Festival – Desert Botanical Garden
Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 10
Grieg: “Holberg” Suite
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
March 2
Paradise Valley, AZ
Phoenix Chamber Music Society
Winter Festival – Camelback Bible Church
Barber: “Dover Beach”
Barber: String Quartet No. 1
Dvořák: Sextet
March 3
Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix Chamber Music Society
Winter Festival
Nokuthula Ngwenyama: New work
March 4
Tucson, AZ
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival
Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2
March 15
Washington, DC
KC Jukebox series
Derek Bermel: Harmonica (first movement)
Derek Bermel: A Short History of the Universe (third movement; with Derek Bermel, clarinet)
Missy Mazzoli: Set That on Fire (Joel Link, violin solo)
Ted Hearne: Snowball (Bryan Lee, violin solo)
March 18
Fernandina Beach, FL
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival
Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
March 20
Miami, FL
Friends of Chamber Music Miami
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 (with Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet)
March 25
Oklahoma City, OK
Chamber Music in Oklahoma
Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Schoenberg: String Quartet in D
Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2
April 1
Rohnert Park, CA
Sonoma State University, Green Music Center
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
April 6
Kansas City, MO
Friends of Chamber Music
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Schoenberg: String Quartet in D
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
April 7
Fernandina Beach, FL
Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival
Couperin: Suite for Quartet and Cello
Schoenberg: String Quartet in D
Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 2
April 9–11: Residency
Evanston, IL
Northwestern University
Bienen School of Music
April 10: Galvin Hall: recital
April 29 & 30
Calgary, AB, Canada
Calgary Pro Musica
Haydn: String Quartet in G, Op. 76, No. 1
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3 in F, Op. 73
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 (with Pacifica Quartet)
May 1
Kelowna, BC, Canada
Chamber Music Kelowna, Mary Irwin Theatre
Schoenberg: String Quartet in D
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, Op. 20 (with Pacifica Quartet)
May 5
New York, NY
Peoples’ Symphony Concerts
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Borodin: Quartet in D
Mozart: String Quintet in G minor, K. 516
May 6
New York, NY
Subculture: Gather NYC
May 14
Norfolk, VA
Virginia Arts Festival
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80
May 15
Portsmouth, VA
Virginia Arts Festival
St. John’s Episcopal Church
May 19 & 20
La Jolla, CA
La Jolla Music Society
Schubert: String Quintet in C (with Carter Brey, cello)
May 21–24: Residency
Evanston, IL
Northwestern University
Bienen School of Music
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